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Business

Michael Kalmykov
Michael Kalmykov
8,919 Points
Posted by Michael Kalmykov
Michael Kalmykov
8,919 Points

Lightweight eCommerce solution?

I'm building a site for my girlfriend to sell her cupcakes on.

It's a side business for her. She usually fills about 3-4 orders a weekend. Nothing insanely complex is needed.

People need to be able to see cupcakes, place orders, leave notes on order, and pay.

I have a solid HTML CSS foundation with a little java.

I was wondering what path you would suggest taking for this.

I have a holding page here http://mysweettoothtreats.com/

Thanks, Michael

2 Answers

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

WordPress with the WooCommerce plugin would work great for that, and Treehouse has courses for both. To get started quickly, you can take a look at these courses:

If you find that you want to go under the hood and really customize the website, here are some courses for WordPress theme development. You'll probably need to learn some PHP and JavaScript to do these, FYI.

Hope that helps!

Michael Kalmykov
Michael Kalmykov
8,919 Points
Michael Kalmykov
Michael Kalmykov
8,919 Points

going the wooCommerce route.

Thanks!

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

Sure thing! Glad I could help!

Francesco Belvedere
Francesco Belvedere
15,206 Points
Francesco Belvedere
Francesco Belvedere
15,206 Points

Squarespace is pretty intuitive and all set up for eComm with lots of template options.

http://www.squarespace.com/

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